Royal College of Art | United Kingdom

The Royal College of Art(RCA) is a public research university in London. It offers postgraduate degrees in art and design to students from over 60 countries; it is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the world. The RCA was founded in Somerset House in 1837 as the Government School of Design[ or Metropolitan School of Design. In 1853 it was expanded and moved to Marlborough House, and then to South Kensington, on the same site as the South Kensington Museum. It was renamed the Normal Training School of Art in 1857 and the National Art Training School in 1863. During the later 19th century it was primarily a teacher training college; pupils during this period included George Clausen,Christopher Dresser,Luke Fildes,Kate Greenaway and Gertrude Jekyll.